DESC 9177 Computer Supported Collaborative Design

Semester 2, 2007

6 credit points.

 

Coordinator:

Dr. Xiangyu Wang (x.wang@arch.usyd.edu.au )

Tutor:

Irene Rui Chen (rche0750@mail.usyd.edu.au)

 

Mondays, 6-7 pm in ALT1- 7-9 pm in Room 313

 

WEEK

Date

LECTURE

STUDIO

WEEK 1

23 July

Introduction  (slides)

 

 

 N/A

WEEK 2

30 July

Cooperation Technologies (Slides)

 

Reading:

Carstensen, P.H., and Schmidt, K. "Computer supported cooperative work: New challenges to systems design," in: Handbook of Human Factors, K. Itoh (ed.), 2002.(pdf)

 

Isaacs, E., Walendowski, A., and Ranganathan, D. "Mobile instant messaging through Hubbub," Communications of the ACM (45:9) 2002, pp 68 - 72.(pdf)

 

Farshchian, B.A. "Presence technologies for informal collaboration," in: Emerging Communication: Studies on new technologies and practices in communication, R.e. al. (ed.), IOS Press, 2002 (pdf)

 

Kraut, R.E., and Susan R. Fussell, S.E.B., Jane Siegel "Understanding Effects of Proximity on Collaboration: Implications for Technologies to Support Remote Collaborative Work," in: Distributed Work, P. Hinds and S. Kiesler (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge , MA , 2002, pp. 137-162 (pdf)

 

How to attend the research project

 

Introduction of Project 1

 

 

Reading: Benford’s Mixed Reality Boundaries theory

 

 

 

WEEK 3

6 August

Special Topic: Augmented Reality and Augmented Virtuality –based Cooperative (slides)

 

 

 

Project 1 development

 

WEEK 4

13 August

Shared Workspace and Design Coordination (slides)

 

Reading:

Farshchian, B.A. "Presence technologies for informal collaboration," in: Emerging Communication: Studies on new technologies and practices in communication, R.e. al. (ed.), IOS Press, 2002 (pdf)

 

Kraut, R.E., and Susan R. Fussell, S.E.B., Jane Siegel "Understanding Effects of Proximity on Collaboration: Implications for Technologies to Support Remote Collaborative Work," in: Distributed Work, P. Hinds and S. Kiesler (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002, pp. 137-162.(pdf)

 

 

Project 1 development

 

WEEK 5

20 August

 

Designing for Social Interactions (slides)

Reading:

Palen, L.1999, 'Social, individual and technological issues for groupware calender systems" (pdf)

Girgensohn, A. and A. Lee, 2002, Social navigation; making websites be places for social interaction" (pdf)

Project 1 Critic

WEEK 6

27 August

 

Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (slides)

 

Reading:

Ellis, C., Gibbs, S. and Rein, G.: 1991, Groupware – Some Issues and Experiences, Communications of the ACM 34(1), 39-58.(pdf)

 

Bannon, L. J. and Schmidt, K.: 1991, CSCW: Four Characters in Search of a Context, in J. M. Bowers and S. D. Benford (eds) Studies in Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Theory, Practice and Design, North-Holland, 3-16.(pdf)

 

Michael Koch, Tom Gross: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work – Concepts and Trends. In: Proc. 11th Conf. of the Association Information and Management (AIM), Jun. 2006, Luxembourg.(pdf)

Project 1 development

 

WEEK 7

3 September

 

 

Organizational Issues of CSCW  (slides)

ORLIKOWSKI, W.J. (1992) "Learning from NOTES: Organizational issues in groupware implementation". In: J. Turner and R. E. Kraut (eds.): CSCW'92: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Toronto , Canada , 31 October-4 November 1992 (p. 362-369). New York : ACM Press. (pdf)

 

Project 1 Presentation

WEEK 8

10 September

Mobility in Cooperative Work (slides)

Reading:

Divitini, M., Farshchian, B.A., and Samset, H. "UbiCollab: collaboration support for mobile users," ACM symposium on Applied computing, ACM Press, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2004, pp. 1191--1195.(pdf)

Tutorial: Active Worlds Training:

Active Worlds design task 1

WEEK 9

17 September

Analyzing Communication in  Collaborative Work (slides)

 

Reading:

Gabriel, G. and Maher, M. L. (1999). Coding and modelling communication in architectural collaborative design. ACADIA' 99 (download pdf).

 

Kvan, T. (2000). "Collaborative design: What is it?" Automation in Construction 9(4): 409-415 (download pdf).

 

Maher, M. L., Bilda, Z. and Gül, L. F. (2006). Impact of collaborative virtual environments on design behaviour. DCC06 (download pdf).

 

Project 2 Introduction and Introduction to analysis of collaboration: How to do coding

 

 

 

 

WEEK 10

24 September

Break

Project 2 Development at home

WEEK 11

1 October

Labor day --no class

Project 2 Development at home

WEEK 12

8 October

 

Collaborative Virtual Environments( slides)

 

 

Project 2 Development

WEEK 13

15 October

Presentations

Project 2 Presentation

 

 

Assessement:

5%  attendence in a research Project

5% attendence in both lectures and tutorials (not more than one unexcused absence)

10% Tutorial

40% Project 1: Conceptualization and Specification of Mixed Reality systems for collaborative design

40% Project 2: Communication Analysis of International Collaborative Design